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John Bechard

@JohnBechard

Catholic Democrat. Red Sox fan. Retired IT & NAVAIR guy. Former vodka enthusiast. Tuxedo cat lover. INFJ. Live for March Madness!

Portland, Maine Katılım Eylül 2011
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John Bechard
John Bechard@JohnBechard·
I'm not sure how this happened but I only exist on the Internet now.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Here's a list of who needs to go next. 1. Pete Hegseth 2. Kash Patel 3. Tulsi Gabbard 4. Howard Lutnick 5. Doug Burgum (the environment killer and public lands THIEF 🌎) Who else?
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John Bechard@JohnBechard·
When we "bring them back to the Stone Age", does that mean we're going back there with them?
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The Halfway Post
The Halfway Post@HalfwayPost·
BREAKING: A dozen countries in Europe currently investigating the Epstein Files are reportedly racing each other to be the first to subpoena Pam Bondi now that she’s fired and no longer employed by the US government.
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The Halfway Post
The Halfway Post@HalfwayPost·
BREAKING: A new poll found that 80% of Americans believe Trump fired Pam Bondi today to distract from the much bigger crisis of him also firing Army Chief of Staff Randy George on the eve of an historically ill-advised invasion of Iran from which US hegemony will never recover.
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The Halfway Post
The Halfway Post@HalfwayPost·
BREAKING: Top GOP officials are reportedly "terrified" the vigorous investigations currently being conducted by France, Poland, and the UK into Jeffrey Epstein's bank records will prove Trump was deeply involved in the pedohpile cabal's money laundering before the midterms.
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Kadi🇪🇪🌻@TheFl0orIsLaVa·
Empires have fallen before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one jump off a cliff.
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The White House@WhiteHouse·
WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM APPROVED ✅
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Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom·
Firing the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war is always a sign that things are going great
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs

Scoop: @SecWar Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told @CBSNews.

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Benny Boy
Benny Boy@Camel_Crushin·
If it were the 90’s Pam Bondi would be on the phone with Playboy right fucking now.
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John Bechard@JohnBechard·
I'm sure Bondi is happy she beclowned herself in front of Congress for Fatso. Look where it got her.
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.
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John Collins
John Collins@Logically_JC·
Pretty soon there won’t be any room left under the bus.
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MayoIsSpicyy
MayoIsSpicyy@Mayoisspicyy·
Pam Bondi could do the funniest thing.
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Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson@TheRickWilson·
Trump throwing Noem, Gabbard, and Bondi off the sled is a great supervillainess origin story.
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The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project@ProjectLincoln·
Double trouble in the Trump admin today. Set another clock for Tulsi.
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